New Jersey A 1730: Prohibits emergency homeless shelters from conditioning provision of shelter on enrollment in certain programs.

Bill Text

A1730 

ASSEMBLY, No. 1730 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman VERLINA REYNOLDS-JACKSON

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

Assemblywoman YVONNE LOPEZ

District 19 (Middlesex)

Assemblyman WILLIAM W. SPEARMAN

District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Sampson, Assemblywomen Morales, Brennan, Haider 
and Park

SYNOPSIS

���� Creates "Census Complete Count Trust Fund" 
in Department of State for funding efforts to achieve full count of State's 
population each federal decennial census.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning the allocation of funds each year for 
undertaking a full count of the State�s population during each federal 
decennial census and supplementing chapter 4 of Title 19 of the Revised 
Statutes.

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� There is established in 
the Department of State a �Census Complete Count Trust Fund,� into which shall 
be appropriated from the State General Fund the sum of $1 million annually. Moneys 
in the fund shall be invested in permitted investments or shall be held in 
interest-bearing accounts in those depositories as the State Treasurer may 
select, and may be invested and reinvested in permitted investments or as other 
trust funds in the custody of the State Treasurer in the manner provided by 
law. All interest or other income or earnings derived from the investment or 
reinvestment of moneys in the fund shall be credited to the fund. 

���� Moneys in the fund shall be 
used by the Department of Sate to fund State, local, and community efforts to 
achieve the full count of the State�s population in each federal decennial 
census. The Legislature may prescribe by law the complete count activities that 
shall be eligible to receive funds in the years and months preceding the census 
day.

���� 2.��� This act shall take 
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill creates a �Census 
Complete Count Trust Fund� in the Department of State for the funding efforts 
to achieve a full count of State�s population during each federal decennial 
census. 

���� Under the bill, the State 
would appropriate into the fund from the State General Fund the sum of $1 
million annually. Moneys in the fund would be invested and all interest or 
other income or earnings derived from such investment or reinvestment would be 
credited to the fund. Moneys in the fund would be used by the department to 
fund State, local, and community efforts to achieve the full count of the 
State�s population in each federal decennial census. The Legislature may 
prescribe by law the complete count activities that would be eligible to 
receive funds in the years and months preceding the census day.